Air Quote by Charles M. Schulz

It was a dark and stormy night.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity…

— J.J. Brown

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

— Anonymous

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

— Erica Jong

“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an explosion, and…

— Joseph O'Neill

“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in the calm…

— Joseph Kutil

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust…

— Anonymous

“The sky clenched, a mountain of mud convulsed, earth and sky bellowed at each other, there was a horrible pinkness, a sudden greenness, a…

— Douglas Adams

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how long the…

— Janet Fitch

“It is always a high possibility to see lights after midnight in the house of a writer! That is the light of the love…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when…

— Kate Braverman

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike